FDP on other topics

The FDP wants to continue the state program for renovating municipal sports facilities and swimming pools so that school and recreational sports benefit. It also wants to fund training bases and performance centers for elite sports, arguing that recreational and elite sports depend on each other.

The FDP wants to keep fixing up local gyms and swimming pools. This helps sports in schools and clubs. Top athletes should also get good places to train. The FDP says recreational sports need role models.

Renovations are to take accessibility, inclusion and sustainability into account. Under the "Sportland Schleswig-Holstein" plan, the infrastructure for major sporting events is to be built up step by step by constructing or expanding suitable venues. The FDP also wants to push for a sports infrastructure program at the federal and EU level. It mentions keeping swimming pools as a public service, securing artificial turf fields and building facilities for trend sports. It wants to support national and international competitions held in the state.

The FDP wants to raise the tax-free allowances for coaches and volunteers and adjust them on an ongoing basis. It argues that sports cannot function without volunteers and that recreational sports must be strengthened as a place where people come together.

Many people help out in sports clubs for free. The FDP wants them to be able to receive more tax-free money for this. It also wants less paperwork for volunteers. The FDP says there is no sport without volunteers.

The program calls for a statewide campaign to raise recognition of volunteer work. On the financial side, the allowances for coaches and volunteers are to be adjusted regularly. The FDP also wants to cut red tape and keep liability risks for volunteers as low as possible.

The FDP wants to keep funding esports programs in municipalities and link them more closely with organized club sports. At the federal level, it wants esports clubs to be recognized as nonprofit. It sees esports as an opportunity for innovation, digitalization, violence prevention and health.

Esports means people compete against each other in video games. The FDP wants to keep supporting esports. Esports clubs should count as nonprofit. That brings tax benefits. Companies that make money from esports should not get funding.

The party points out that the state has already recognized esports as a sport and funded municipal facilities, including media education support. The buildup of municipal esports infrastructure is to continue. Sports clubs that want to set up their own esports sections are to be better integrated. To grant nonprofit status, the federal tax code (Abgabenordnung) is to be amended, as the federal coalition agreement provides. Funding is meant for community structures such as clubs, not for commercial providers.

On consumer protection, the FDP relies on responsible consumers who decide for themselves when well informed, and it rejects paternalism. It wants to keep funding the consumer advice center reliably, expand education and advice, and introduce a simple hygiene notice for restaurants and food retailers.

The FDP wants consumers to decide for themselves. For that, they need good information. The consumer advice center should keep getting enough money. Restaurants and shops should show simply how clean they are. The state should not tell people what to buy.

The consumer advice center is to make more use of digital media and keep offering personal advice, online and in Flensburg, Heide, Kiel, Norderstedt and Lübeck. A mobile advice unit is to be examined, mainly for rural areas and schools, as is extra demand for advice arising from possible renovation requirements for homes. The FDP wants to promote understandable food and product labels. Consumer rights are to become easier to enforce, for example through a further developed model declaratory action and shorter court proceedings. The hygiene notice is to be modeled on Denmark's smiley system, involve little red tape, and not put craft businesses at a disadvantage.